..Hello all, I'm a male in his fifties, married, two children, two grandchildren...I don't subscribe to any particular political party, I vote my conscience and decide on a candidate based on their individual character and whether I think they would represent my thoughts when doing their job...I don't really have any pet peeves except child abusers/molesters. Don't get me started about these people because I will tell you right now that death is too good for them...I do believe in the 2nd Amendment and am all for CCW laws. An armed society is a polite society...Please don't be afraid to tell me what you think, I'm a big boy and can handle it. I don't have a lot of time to research things but I have some common sense and,at least I think, a few brain cells left.

.Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University School of Law, St. Paul , Minnesota , points out some interesting facts concerning the 2008 Presidential election:

Number of States won by: Democrats: 19 Republicans: 29 Square miles of land won by: Democrats: 580,000 Republicans: 2,427,000 Population of counties won by: Democrats: 127 million Republicans: 143 million Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Democrats: 13.2 Republicans: 2.1

Professor Olson adds: In aggregate, the map of the territory Republicans won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country. Democrat territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare...

Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the complacency and apathy phase of Professor Tylers definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nations population already having reached the governmental dependency phase.

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